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I see ... OK.Quote:
Originally posted by johnie
I like messing with the insides of the computer to much so I keep the K6 around to tinker with.
Here's my gift for you:
Spectrum Sinclair (modified):
Z80A/3.5MHz , 192KB RAM (128KB SRAM),16 colors,Floppy 800KB (unit & adapter),IDE interface & HDD SeaGate 40MB,WinBasic & TRDOS systems.
Also I have a lot of games for you.
If you like messing,this is the best way to do it !
:p
3.5 mhz...lol.
Also I have a Spectrum version of Warcraft (maded 5 years ago by a russian designer).Quote:
Originally posted by The Action Scripter
3.5 mhz...lol.
On 3.5MHz processor,this game runs faster than never !
:p
what's new:
- another GoldMine (!)
- walls (!)
- construction time (you can't use a building until is finished) (!)
- upgrade to KEEP (you must increase the gold production).
- more trees.
- new sound (for Lumber MILL).
- improved PathFinding (!)
- improved enemy AI:
1) auto-searching for new GoldMines. (!)
2) "if nothing to chop,search for gold" (!)
I need testers & suggestions.
p.s.
Windows projector also updated.
:mrpimp:
I can't force my peons to use the second gold mine, they turn around and head for the first. (I like using "their" resources and protecting "mine" - those closer to home).
That's right OWEN.Quote:
Originally posted by OwenAus
I can't force my peons to use the second gold mine, they turn around and head for the first. (I like using "their" resources and protecting "mine" - those closer to home).
This is only for fair-play (you have 4 workers and they're only 2).
But this is not for too long ...
I'm working on something BIGGER.
Thanks.
wow very nice, if you only made this like 3-4 years ago and sold it to blizzard you would have made alot of money.
Thanx for support. ;)Quote:
Originally posted by parsa33
wow very nice, if you only made this like 3-4 years ago and sold it to blizzard you would have made alot of money.
hmm - With only two orcs, and four of my peons, they don't need a whole mine to themselves!
Greedy beggers. ;)
You're too greedy OWEN ...ha ha ha.Quote:
Originally posted by OwenAus
hmm - With only two orcs, and four of my peons, they don't need a whole mine to themselves!
Greedy beggers. ;)
Wait a bit for 4 peasants,2 footmans,4 peons,2 grunts and more ...
:mrpimp:
what's new:
- 4 peasants,2 footmans & 4 peons (!!!)
- health,damage & shield for each character (!)
- you can attack and destroy (!!!)
- buildings under fire (!)
- self-deffense system (for orcs & humans) (!)
- auto-tracking system for left icons (!)
- a lot of new sounds
bad news: the new SwapDepths controller works faster,but the main engine
has to deal with huge amount of data (over 70KB of ActionScript,over
150 variables,multi-loops,etc).
You'll need a powerfull system to sustain the designed game-speed (24 FPS).
I'll try to find a way to "skip" the Flash 6 poor AS interpreter.
If not ... I'm waiting for V7 !
cheers
Hacked up those greedy orcs and watched them fade away ....
MuhaHahAhAaaaaaaaaa! <-- evil laugh
lol. This is getting better and better. And the peons fought back!
Great stuff,
I gave it to my 9 year old daughter - she had a great time!
Her comments:
"How do I do this? - how do I do that?" (I think she wants some help screens)
"I lost some of the people - they went into the mine and didn't come out again!" (very upset she was!)
"Can I make time go faster?"
I took a peek at some of your code :) You have done a lot of great work here Necro - well done!
I have a couple of suggestions - I think it would lend itself well to OO Actionscript, and may help you with the speed issue. You could make a person Class and then share methods with say peons, footmen and peasants Classes etc
Also, there are a lot of onClipEvent's which you could probably assign dynamically in an OO structure, or maybe try setInterval which can save you lots of CPU cycles....
This is not a critisism, I think you have done a wonderful job here.
Keep up the great work...
Hilary
--
Thanks OWEN ,thanks HILARY
- I used shared Classes
- I used multi-conditioned functions (to save from CPU hard job).
I can't use "setInterval",because the engine needs perfect synchronization between "childs" (I have a lot of "hitTest with getBounds" and must be performed at the same time)
I think I need a miracle to speed up the game ...
cheers
what's new:
- Two vigilant GRUNTs (!!)
- expanded map: x16 (!)
- ORCs can kill & destroy everything (!)
- you can (re)train peasants & footmans (!!!)
- ORCs can (re)train peons only.
- you can rebuild destroyed buildings (!!!)
- you can show the right path to a "dizzy" peasant carring goodies (!)
- INFO panel upgraded: energy for each building.
- a lot of corrections
http://necromanthus.com/Games/Flash/warcraft.html
(warcraft.exe also updated)
...is getting harder...
:mrpimp:
Looking v good.
How far do you intend to go with it? Will it end up with ships, that bicycle-like flying machine, catapults, etc?
What would be neat is if when you selected someone (clicked a face in the panel), their dot on the big map changed colour.
Have a good new year.
1) At this moment: peasants,footmans,archers and knights (maybe balistas).Quote:
Originally posted by OwenAus
Looking v good.
How far do you intend to go with it? Will it end up with ships, that bicycle-like flying machine, catapults, etc?
What would be neat is if when you selected someone (clicked a face in the panel), their dot on the big map changed colour.
Have a good new year.
(I wanna keep the SWF size under 2 MB).
2) Intresting idea.
A better year for you,Owen !
Hello !
Is this game still devlopped ?
I am working on this -> http://www.twokingdoms.com which should be playable online in a week or two, and i would be interested to talk a bit about your project ...
Thanks,
LUX
Quote:
Originally posted by luxregina
Hello !
Is this game still devlopped ?
I am working on this -> http://www.twokingdoms.com which should be playable online in a week or two, and i would be interested to talk a bit about your project ...
Thanks,
LUX
I saw your work (a couple of months ago).
Amazing graphics man ! Congratulations.
Also,your XML generated game maps are cool.
Warcraft and Diablo are "on hold" (at least for this year).
The reason: a common 3D project (Macromedia & Discreet are involved too).
Anyhow,FLASH (at this stage) is not the best environment for sophisticated games.
But who knows ? ...
Keep up the good work.
cheers
Well, i hope your project will come to a good conclusion !
I've been really impressed by your work on that Flash-warcraft : it seems that we share quite the same source of inspiration ...
If one day you want to push farther the adventure of your warcraft engine, and if you look someone to collaborate with, i can count me in : i would be quite excited to work on a derivation of such a great game, and, for example, some of Two Kingdoms GFXs and tiles could do pretty well in a RTS ... with keeping in the same time that Warcraft II look and feel ...
LUX
I see ...Quote:
Originally posted by luxregina
If one day you want to push farther the adventure of your warcraft engine, and if you look someone to collaborate with, i can count me in : i would be quite excited to work on a derivation of such a great game, and, for example, some of Two Kingdoms GFXs and tiles could do pretty well in a RTS ... with keeping in the same time that Warcraft II look and feel ...
LUX
KoolMoves ---> the environment
Necromanthus ---> game engine
LuxRegina ---> game graphics
Blizzard ---> just looking ...
ha ha ha
You're on my "white on-hold list"
LOL
heuuu ... not sure if it's anything positive though ?!? - never heard that expression before ... (though, i'm french, so english is not necessarly my strongest skill ;))Quote:
Originally posted by necromanthus
(...)You're on my "white on-hold list"
Anyway, cheers ! and i hope your engine won't go into oblivion : it is one of the most impressive i've seen in Flash so far.
Let's put it in other way: you're on my future "white list" (something like a future "Hall of Fame") ... LOLQuote:
Originally posted by luxregina
heuuu ... not sure if it's anything positive though ?!? - never heard that expression before ... (though, i'm french, so english is not necessarly my strongest skill ;))
Anyway, cheers ! and i hope your engine won't go into oblivion : it is one of the most impressive i've seen in Flash so far.
And about the engine: I have the PERFECT PathFinding routines,but FLASH can't deal with this huge amount of data (processsor > 2GHz is required to sustain 24 FPS).
We'll see ... next year !
cheers
Actually, we could talk about pathfinding : for enemy AI, Two Kingdoms uses an algorythm that is quite fast, that is not processor intensive, not based on a* (as speed is a big drawback ) but that works really well ... specially when a lot ( meaning 10-20 ) objects (sprites) use it...
Still working on releasing the final version next week or around, so you might hopefully see what i'm talking about soon !
To be honest,I have all your scripts (LOL).Quote:
Originally posted by luxregina
Actually, we could talk about pathfinding : for enemy AI, Two Kingdoms uses an algorythm that is quite fast, that is not processor intensive, not based on a* (as speed is a big drawback ) but that works really well ... specially when a lot ( meaning 10-20 ) objects (sprites) use it...
But I can't find any "enemies AI" there.
You have few predefined paths (I'm talking about those archers and wolfes) and some "pseudo-random" routines.
Warcraft is based on few "predefined targets" and a real-time PathFinding routine (a little bit buggy,I have to admit that).
But this is not the point.
The new engine is based on a heuristic algorithm (with logical trees),of course,ported on Flash (ActionScript).
I have a lot of improvements for WARCRAFT and DIABLO,but I have no time (maybe next year).
p.s.
I don't wanna upset BOB with these discussions (have nothing to do with KoolMoves),so email me or start a new topic HERE (FLASH Games).
cheers
;)
Hummm....don't know if i can be happy about that ... decompiler ? ...Quote:
Originally posted by necromanthus
To be honest,I have all your scripts (LOL).
Actually, you might not have them all, or old ones : wolves, archers etc are derivations of an enemy overall class : no predefined at all : the enemy spots the position of the player (if in line of sight), then does the pathfinding to that position - to avoid having perfect pathfinding, i update the pathfinding according to the line of sight, and a timer which basicly sets the intelligence/reactivity of the enemy... so it is a "real" pathfinding, only that it is not constant ( but could be )
I must stressed that eventhough i commited a lot of the code on 2K, i've worked with an OOP coder lately that reprogrammed a lot of the engine lately ...
PS -> To the mod : sorry for hijacking the thread : i subscribed to Necro forums, just waiting for the confirmation ...
There's no need to wait for that.Quote:
Originally posted by luxregina
i subscribed to Necro forums, just waiting for the confirmation ...
Just read your email and activate your account by clicking on that link.
;)
i am new here but played this game last night and it's a very slow moving game, is there anyway to speed it up? also, add archers :) my footman will were killed by the grunts :( with a couple archer to back them up, they woulda won.Quote:
Originally posted by necromanthus
What new feature do you need more ?
What do you dislike ?
Some bug ?
...
I'll try to speed up the game,but is VERY difficult (Flash ActionScript is not the best environment for sophisticated engines).Quote:
Originally posted by Jeffshaw71
i am new here but played this game last night and it's a very slow moving game, is there anyway to speed it up? also, add archers :) my footman will were killed by the grunts :( with a couple archer to back them up, they woulda won.
archers and knights are on my "to do" list (next year).
cheers
;)
glad to hear it :)Quote:
Originally posted by necromanthus
I'll try to speed up the game,but is VERY difficult (Flash ActionScript is not the best environment for sophisticated engines).
archers and knights are on my "to do" list (next year).
cheers
;)
Kudos! This is my favorite Warcraft version, so anything I can contribute (actionscript arena, not graphics I'm afraid) I'm game... Anyway, I'm playing without speakers, so I don't know if you have sound or not (I think I saw a note about "choppy sound") but when I went up to attack the orcish base with my little footsoldier, I noticed the orcs didn't falter a bit when they're hut caught on fire. I tried to rile up some support from the orcish rank by yelling, "We're being attacked!" in my best grunt voice, but to no avail. Please implement support for pitiful classic game lovers and their silly voices. ;)
Also, hi. You could say I'm the epitome of the concept "forum lurker." Joined Aug 1 2003. First post Feb 20 2004. Really enjoy listening to your banter. Wouldn't be able to do the measly things I do in Flash weren't for you guys (and gals) helping me without knowing it.
Hello there.Quote:
Originally posted by misterjueves
Kudos! This is my favorite Warcraft version, so anything I can contribute (actionscript arena, not graphics I'm afraid) I'm game... Anyway, I'm playing without speakers, so I don't know if you have sound or not (I think I saw a note about "choppy sound") but when I went up to attack the orcish base with my little footsoldier, I noticed the orcs didn't falter a bit when they're hut caught on fire. I tried to rile up some support from the orcish rank by yelling, "We're being attacked!" in my best grunt voice, but to no avail. Please implement support for pitiful classic game lovers and their silly voices. ;)
What can I say ... to be honest,I don't know the future of this flash game.
Flash environment is not suitable for this kind of projects.
The swapDepths engine is a game killer (there's nothing I can do about that).
About sounds ... I don't know who said something about "choppy sound" because there're no choppy sounds at all.
The main problem is that to get a decent FrameRate (>24 FPS),you need a top system (processor > 1.6GHz and at least 256MB RAM).
Now about "I noticed the orcs didn't falter a bit when they're hut caught on fire" ... of course: they're too dummies to do something else.
On my "to do" list are archers and knights,but to do that I have to rebuild the entire engine.
I can't predict any date for that,because the current project is out of Flash: NecroShock
Anyway,I'll keep you in touch.
:mrpimp:
This is hella good, how do you do this?
There needs to be more wood.
I agree.Quote:
Originally posted by kreazy
This is hella good, how do you do this?
There needs to be more wood.
But to add archers,knights and more trees, I need more computing power !
And Flash is not able to give me that ...
;)
WARCRAFT updated:
- faster engine
- the first archer (!)
- a lot of corrections
This game is not "on hold" anymore.
:mrpimp:
I would appreciate it if you please add more trees for the goblins i never get enough for finishing the first mission :)Quote:
Originally Posted by necromanthus
Check out this TOPICQuote:
Originally Posted by warcraft_player
This project is dead for a long time ago.
As I said many times before, flash environment (because of its poor global performances) is not suitable for sophisticated projects.
To continue this project I need a (much more) faster environment.
Flash v8.5 is far away from my expectations, so you have to wait for v9, v10, or ... who knows.
Meanwhile, this is the "real" Warcraft in your browser:
http://necromanthus.com/Games/ShockWave/warcraft.html
new features are coming soon ...
[QUOTE=necromanthus]Finally,the first public preview !
It's just the beginning,so don't ask too much.
http://necromanthus.com/Games/Flash/warcraft.html
warning: "multitasking" engine !!! (not tested on entry-level machines).
Sound ON !
I need all my friends opinions & sugestions.
(I'm searching for possible bugs)
p.s.
both versions (KoolMoves & Flash MX) are developed at the same time.
cheers
:mrpimp:[/QUO shouldn't you add anymore levels?
Necromanthus, you should add more levels